bush team wants to rape Medicaid - calling it a "reform"

[peacebird]

"In his first speech as secretary, Mr. Leavitt also said it should be more difficult for elderly people to qualify for Medicaid by transferring assets to their children.

"Medicaid must not become an inheritance protection plan," Mr. Leavitt said at a convention of health care executives here. "Right now, many older Americans take advantage of Medicaid loopholes to become eligible for Medicaid by giving away assets to their children. There is a whole industry that actually helps people shift costs to the taxpayer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/national/02health.html


:wtf:
wasn't bush all for getting rid of the "death tax" so his super rich buddies wouldn't have to give anything up? I guess it's different if it's the middle class just trying to hang on to something to pass on to the kids, instead of the wealthy trying to not pay taxes on a business they inherit...

[LostInAnomie]

1. They were talking about this on NPR today.

They said with the plan that they are proposing whether you get oxygen tanks to breathe or not will depend on what state you live in.

[gizmo1979]

2. Did he use the phrase'then you will own it'

It'll be yours.I know when he starts talking about ownership I'am about to get screwed again!